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Union Bible School (Janjgir, Madhya Pradesh, India)
The Janjgir Union Bible School was opened on 3 July 1930 as a training school for native pastors, evangelists, teachers, and Bible women of the Hindustani congregations of the General Conference Mennonite Church in central India, with a three-year course. The school began with six months of classroom work, conducted in the Sunday-school wings of the Janjgir Church, and two months of village evangelism, but soon increased to nine months of classroom work with one-month village evangelism. The first term had 14 students, with W. F. Unruh as principal. Succeeding principals were Martha Burkhalter, S. T. Moyer, J. R. Duerksen, and Curt Claassen. Under J. R. Duerksen the school became an inter-mission school, though the administration and staff remained General Conference Mennonite. In 1955 only 21 of the 47 students were of the General Conference Church; the remainder being distributed as follows: Churches of Christ 16, Mennonite Church (MC) in India 4, Mission Bands 2, Evangelical Christian Church (Allahabad) 2. The Bible School closed in 1960, as the Mennonite groups began to cooperate with the inter-denominational Union Biblical Seminary at Yavatmal.
Juhnke, James C. A People of Mission: A History of General Conference Mennonite Overseas Missions. Newton, KS: Faith and Life, 1979: 169-170.
|Harold S. Bender
|Samuel J. Steiner
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The dystopian future envisioned by last year's critical darling 'Her' reappears in 'Transcendence,' albeit with a lot more testosterone. You could even call this new thriller - in which a godlike artificial intelligence, played by Johnny Depp, starts building an army of cyborg zombies - 'Him.'
Unlike that earlier film about a man who falls in love with a computer operating system, which was a poetic, melancholic meditation on the failure to connect, 'Transcendence' is a kind of high-tech horror story. In this case, the bogeyman is the Internet. The extent to which it succeeds in frightening depends on your philosophical alignment with, say, Ted Kaczynski.
People living in cabins without running water or WiFi, in other words, will probably love it, because it confirms their deepest, darkest fears. All others, proceed with caution.
The story gets underway when Will Caster (Depp), a scientist specializing in artificial intelligence, narrowly survives a shooting by a member of a radical anti-technology group. When it becomes clear that Will has been poisoned by a polonium-tipped bullet, his wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), and his best friend, Max (Paul Bettany), hit upon the idea of uploading Will's fading consciousness to a supercomputer.
Will, who is now merely a collection of ones and zeros, decides to surf the Web, vacuuming up all human knowledge and power - including WebMD, cat videos and access to the global financial system - into his electronic brain. In short order, he has morphed from a mild-mannered computer nerd into a sexier version of Oz the Great and Powerful, reigning, via video screen, over a fortified bunker in the desert, where his arms and legs have been replaced by a cadre of humanoid automatons created, through robotic nanosurgery, in his futuristic subterranean lab.
And how, exactly, is all of this accomplished?
Considering that the setting of the film is the present day - based on the look of the cars people are driving - it's a mystery. A perfunctory shot of a dying Will reciting, in alphabetical order, the contents of the Oxford English Dictionary while his bald head is hooked up to electrodes is meant to aid in our willing suspension of disbelief.
Any other questions? Look people, we've got a movie to get through here.
Directed by cinematographer-turned-filmmaker Wally Pfister, from a script by first-timer Jack Paglen, 'Transcendence' wastes no time with such details as logic or credibility. It's the kind of movie in which people shout stuff like, 'The incoming queries have all been anonymized!' - hoping, presumably, that most people will be so surprised to learn that 'anonymize' is a word that they won't stop to wonder what that sentence means.
Never mind that artificial intelligence of this level, by even the most optimistic estimates, is still decades away. The concept of a mighty cyber-brain being able to transcend our puny human ones - what some futurists call the 'singularity' - isn't due before 2045, at the earliest, according to many prognosticators.
The problem with 'Transcendence' isn't that it's an utter crock. At times, the tale, like 'Her,' betrays flashes of genuine insight into our love-hate relationship with technology. And the acting, while wooden on the part of Depp - who appears throughout most of the film on a monitor, like a high-def Max Headroom - is decent enough.
Even the love story sort of works, in the way that Evelyn's yearning for Will blinds her to the fact that the 'Will' on screen, who isn't above embezzling other people's money to finance the construction of his lair, isn't remotely like the man she married. She's no different from a widow who saves her late husband's voicemails so that she can still listen to him. That's touching, even if her husband's pillow talk these days consists of statements like, 'The balance of oxytocin and serotonin in your system is unusual.'
No, the real trouble with 'Transcendence' is that it just isn't all that scary - at least not in the way that it wants to be.
The movie opens with a prologue, set five years in the future, in which there is no more Internet, not more Facebook, no more Google. This post-apocalyptic vision of an unplugged tomorrow is supposed to be horrifying, but in truth, the thought of a world that has hit the restart button, however reluctantly, is actually kind of refreshing.
'Transcendence,' rated PG-13 for some violent and bloody images, obscenity and sensuality, runs 119 minutes. 1-1/2 stars out of 4.


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Sago pondweed is a perennial plant that arises from thickly matted rhizomes and has no floating leaves. The stems are thin, long and highly branching with leaves very thin and filament-like, about 1/16 of an inch wide and 2 to over 12 inches long tapering to a point. The leaves grow in thick layers and originate from a sheath. The fruit is nut-like 1/8 to 1/4 inches long and 1/10 to 1/8 inches wide.
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Students are expected to attend school to the fullest extent possible, but homebound instruction may be provided when a medical condition prevents them from participating in classroom instruction because they are confined to their home or a health care facility. The primary goal of homebound instruction is to allow students to continue their educational program when they are unable to attend school. Instruction is designed to meet the student's individual needs and, when possible, is coordinated with the student's school to ensure a smooth transition back to school.
When homebound instruction is required (MN Rule 3525.2325)
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Jim Xamis Ford to host Humane Society fundraiser Nov. 15
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[November 06, 2012]
Jim Xamis Ford is hosting a
special event Nov. 15, from 4 to 8 p.m., that will benefit the
Humane Society of Logan County.
In addition,
visitors have an opportunity to win some great prizes.
People who register and attend the event are automatically
entered for a chance to win a 2013 Fusion courtesy of Ford Credit.
While there, they can also test their judging skills with
"American Idol"** and possibly win a VIP experience at the show.
The evening will also include hors d'oeuvres and drinks, and a
chance to see the new lineup from Ford, including the all-new,
redesigned Ford Fusion.
Plus, guests can talk to volunteers from the Humane Society and
learn how they can adopt a pet in need.
The Humane Society of Logan County is a not-for-profit agency
that provides safe, loving, temporary shelter to animals in need.
The society offers adoption programs so these animals can find new
"forever homes." The HSLC pays for the cost of its work through the
generosity of the community and hosts multiple fundraisers
throughout the year to help keep this valuable service available.
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For answers to questions about the Nov. 15 event, contact Jim
Xamis Ford Lincoln, 2301 Woodlawn Road, 217-732-2111,
If you are interested in adopting a pet from the shelter, visit
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registered guest up to a maximum of $500.
**No purchase necessary. Complete
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Developers can now incorporate Bluetooth Smart functionality into their BlackBerry 10 applications. Android and Apple have also previously completed support process for Bluetooth Smart. Since the introduction of the iPhone 4s in 2011, Apple methodically turned almost every one of their devices into Bluetooth Smart Ready hubs.
Suke Jawanda, chief marketing officer of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, suggests that BlackBerry 10 apps with Bluetooth functionality are creating new opportunities for developers in sectors such as fitness, healthcare, and automotive.
For example, applications can track a cyclist's performance on their BlackBerry 10 smartphone using speed and cadence sensors on their bikes, fitness enthusiasts can capture heart rate data from training sessions to compare performance, and sensors can even help drivers locate a lost set of keys.
According to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, "BlackBerry provides a broad range of support for various Bluetooth profiles in BlackBerry 10, with a secure set of APIs in the Native Development Kit (NDK). BlackBerry 10 implements AES-CCM cryptography and privacy features to ensure a customer's data is kept safe and secure while their smartphone is polling or connected to a Bluetooth Smart device."
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iPads Are Expected To Be The Most Requested Gift By Kids 12 And Younger. Are Your Kids Begging For One?
Suri Cruise, who has her very own iPad, isn't the only technologically savvy tot. It looks like more and more elementary school kids will be asking Santa for an iPad this holiday season. Will you be forking out more than $400 for one?
Remember when a coloring book and a brand new box of crayons or a Barbie doll were the perfect presents to find wrapped up under the Christmas tree? Well, let's hope Santa's elves have adapted to the electronics age, because all kids are asking for this holiday season is an iPad. Industry experts say that Apple's handheld computer gizmo is at the top of just about every tween's wish list!
"I think the iPad will spark a revolution in children's culture," Computerworld columnist Mike Elgan tells USA Today. He considers the iPad to be the children's toy of the year. "I'm convinced that starting this year, and especially next year, iPad will be the No. 1 more requested holiday and birthday gift by everyone under the age of 18, and especially under the age of 12." Tom Cruise and Kate Holmes got one for their 4-year-old daughter Suri right after they went on sale this past spring.
Are your kids begging for one, HollyMoms? Personally, I think they're great for busy adults on the go, but don't really see why someone who's still learning to read and write really needs one. Personally, I'll stick to picture books and board games when it comes to presents for the kids in my life this holiday season. But if I get one for Christmas, I suppose I could share… if they ask really nicely.
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Joe Ross
RHP / Bishop O'Dowd HS
Bats-Throws: R-R
Height/Weight: 6-2/180
Hometown: Oakland, Calif.
College Commitment: UCLA
Birthdate: May 21, 1993
SCOUTING PROFILE: Ross is the brother of Oakland A's righthander Tyson Ross, a second-round pick of the A's in 2008 who also attended Bishop O'Dowd High before going on to nearby Cal-Berkeley. Aside from being righthanded and throwing a 90-plus fastball/slider combination, the two don't resemble each other as pitchers. Tyson was a big-framed 6-foot-5, 200-pounder at the same age and threw from an extremely compact arm action that concerned scouts; almost the exact opposite is true of brother Joe's smooth, easy arm stroke. Ross has actually been more closely linked to fellow Northern California righthander Robert Stephenson over the past year, and both should go in approximately the same area of the draft, likely between picks 25 and 40—if signability doesn't complicate their draft status. While Ross and Stephenson are very similar physically with long-limbed and loose athletic builds, their pitching styles and present stuff are not alike, giving scouts a good opportunity to see the differences between the two and make decisions based on those evaluations. Ross has a very clean, polished delivery that he repeats effortlessly. He already has solid command of all his pitches, and there is nothing to indicate that he might have control issues in the future. His three-quarters release point creates a nice angle to the plate, and his arm is loose and easy out front. Ross' fastball is regularly in the 91-94 mph range and while it is fairly straight at present, he has the ability to spot the pitch well, especially on the inside half of the plate to righthanded hitters. His breaking ball is a low-80s slider that has good tilt and sharpness. He continues to develop his changeup. Unlike Stephenson, Ross has struggled this spring to achieve meaningful success at the high-school level, going just 3-4, 1.20 with two saves. In 46 innings, he has walked just 12 and struck out 59.
Projected Draft Position: Late First Round / Compensation Round
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Selected performance:
Sunday 6th December
1st show - Doors open 6pm, support 6.30pm, Curtis Stigers 7.30pm. Doors close 9pm.
2nd show - Doors open 9.30pm, Curtis Stigers 10.15pm - 11.30pm. Late show from midnight until 2.30am. Doors close at 3am.
Please note weekend shows will follow regular timings as per the 'show times' tab, except on Sunday where the timings will follow the format as follows:
SUNDAY LUNCH SHOW: Doors open 12pm, support 1pm, Curtis Stigers 2.15pm
SUNDAY EVENING SHOW: Doors open 6.30pm, support 7.15pm, Curtis Stigers 8.30pm, Doors Close 12 Midnight
LINE-UP (TBC): CURTIS STIGERS sax/vocals; JOHN SNEIDER trumpet; MATTHEW FRIES piano; CLIFF SCHMITT bass; PAUL WELLS drums"A Rockin' Jazzman" – New York Times"An artist of genuine class and laconic charm" – The Guardian"Serious class act here, folks" – Rochester City Paper
Multi-platinum selling singer, saxophonist, producer and songwriter Curtis Stigers is back at Ronnie's playing his classic material, seasonal favourites, hits and songs from his latest album 'Gentleman'.
Curtis Stigers first appeared on the scene in the early 90s with hit songs 'I Wonder Why' and 'You´re all that Matters to Me' which have become soul classics over the years.
His rendition of Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding" was included in the massively successful soundtrack of 'The Bodyguard' movie (Whitney Houston & Kevin Costner) selling over 40 million copies.
Over the years Curtis has performed and recorded with Eric Clapton, Elton John, Prince, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, George Benson, The Allman Brothers Band and many more. He recently sung and co-composed the theme tune to cult television series Sons of Anarchy, for which he was also nominated for an Emmy.
Since 2001 Curtis Stigers is seriously pursuing a career as a first class jazz singer with 7 albums out so far and many awards under his belt: In 2003 his album "You Inspire Me" was the London Times´ 'Jazz Album of the Year', in 2007 Stigers was named 'Jazz Artist of the Year' by BBC Radio 2, and in 2010 Stigers won the German Jazz Echo in the
category 'Best International Male Jazz Singer'. He has performed at most major jazz festivals and iconic jazz
clubs around the world and is a regular at concert halls on both sides of the Atlantic.
For the upcoming tours Curtis will bring a quintet (himself plus piano, bass, drums, guitar), but he also has a full concert repertoire featuring him as soloist with symphony orchestra and also with bigband.


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Chris Brown Denies 'I Won't Beat You' Pick Up Line
Chris Brown isn't known for his gender sensitivity and Us Weekly aren't known for their reliable reporting, so when the two sides came together earlier this week, the result was one of the more eyebrow-raising rumors we've heard in awhile: an unnamed woman claimed that Brown asked for her number and used "I promise I won't beat you" as his pickup line. Brown says the whole thing is untrue, however.
"That is absurd and absolutely not true," said Brown in a statement. "I did not say that nor would I joke about that." His denial follows comments from his PR rep, who told reporters, "I'd be surprised if Chris said something like that."
It's been a wild week for the quick-tempered Brown, who found himself under fire after angering Grammy viewers who felt his performance during the ceremony was in poor taste and responded by tweeting a profane outburst (since deleted) that basically boiled down to "Neener neener, I have a Grammy and you don't."
Brown's detractors responded by starting a rumor that he'd died — and his own mother reportedly told him to "grow up."
So yeah, Chris Brown has been in the news a lot lately, and most of the coverage has been decidedly negative. Denying you used one of the worst pickup lines of all time has to be considered a PR victory at this point, right?


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|Oracle® interMedia User's Guide
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10840-01
|View PDF
You can develop traditional client/server or two-tier applications, or you can develop multitier applications. Either method can then deploy Web applications to run on an application server tier, be tightly integrated with Oracle Database, and allow users access to the application from their desktop through a Web browser.
Using a complete development framework supported by class library interfaces, you can create production quality interMedia applications for use in a production environment where users can interact with the application through either the standalone client interface or a Web browser. For Web applications, which are based on standards such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, XML, and XTHML, this is all facilitated by rapid developments in the underlying technology. As key software components become more tightly integrated, developers' tasks to design, create, and manage Web applications become faster, easier, and simpler to implement.
Using either the object type interface or the relational interface, interMedia provides Internet support for Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database and authoring tools so you can quickly develop Web-based applications to upload to the database, retrieve from it, and manipulate multimedia data for delivery to Web browsers.
Oracle interMedia supports application development by:
Providing class libraries that allow access (insert, update, and retrieve) and manipulation (process) of multimedia data stored in the database. Class libraries provide access to multimedia data stored in the database in the following ways:
Using Oracle interMedia Java Classes. Using the Java database connectivity (JDBC) interface, you can quickly develop applications for use on any tier (client, application server, or database) to manipulate and modify audio, image, and video data, or heterogeneous media data stored in a database. Oracle interMedia Java Classes makes it possible for JDBC result sets to include both traditional relational data with interMedia columns of object type media data, to easily select and operate on the result set, to access object attributes, and to invoke object methods. See Oracle interMedia Java Classes Reference for more information.
Using Oracle interMedia Java Classes for servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP). These additional classes support Web technologies. See Section 1.10.3 for more general information and Section 2.2 for more information about developing Java-based Web applications using JDBC. See Section 3.1.2 for a description of a Java servlet application and Section 3.1.3 for a description of a JSP application that uses these classes. See Oracle interMedia Java Classes Reference for more information.
Using the interMedia/BC4J integration package, which includes the interMedia domain classes and a set of utilities. These classes are for use with Oracle JDeveloper 10g, the Java integrated development environment (IDE) tool that supports the application framework (Oracle Business Components for Java (BC4J)) that enables you to build multitier, component-based Internet applications. See Section 1.10.3 and Oracle JDeveloper 10g help for more information.
Using Oracle interMedia Custom DataSource and DataSink classes. These classes are an extension to JMF version 2.0/2.1 that allows a JMF application to upload and retrieve time-based media data stored in a database using interMedia OrdAudio and OrdVideo object types. See Section 1.10.4 and Oracle interMedia Java Classes Reference for more information.
Using Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) classes. Oracle interMedia Java Classes describes three types of stream objects, which provide interfaces to BLOB and BFILE data, that can be used by JAI. These classes allow a JAI application to read and write image data stored in a database using interMedia OrdImage objects, or in BLOBs or BFILEs. See Oracle interMedia Java Classes Reference for more information.
Using C++ and traditional 3GLs through modern class library interfaces.
Using the PL/SQL Gateway (mod_plsql) feature of the Oracle HTTP Server and the PL/SQL Web Toolkit features of Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database, to listen for browser requests, to execute stored PL/SQL procedures in the database using Oracle Net and Oracle Call Interface (OCI), and to generate an HTML page containing data and code for the response returned to the Web browser for display. As a Web application developer, you can write PL/SQL servlets and PL/SQL server pages (PSP) that invoke PL/SQL procedures stored in the database through an Oracle Net connection and OCI. See Section 2.1 for more information.
Integrating Oracle development tools with tightly integrated components to enable you to quickly and easily develop applications that provide access to (insert, update, and retrieve) and manipulation (process) of multimedia data stored in the database for delivery to Web browsers and client applications. These development tools include:
Oracle Application Server Portal -- a simple browser-based environment for building and deploying enterprise information portlets (EIPs). An enterprise portal provides access to portlets, which are summarized versions of applications and Web content situated in defined regions of the Web page. Oracle Application Server Portal portlets execute PL/SQL stored procedures residing in the database, which in turn generate an HTTP response in the form of a generated HTML page. Oracle Application Server Portal contains two predefined components: Oracle Application Server Forms Services and Oracle Application Server Reports Services, which both support rich media content being uploaded or downloaded between the database and the portal framework form or report. See Section 1.10.3 for more information.
Oracle JDeveloper 10g -- written 100% in Java, is the IDE tool that supports the application framework (Oracle Business Components for Java (BC4J)). An interMedia/BC4J integration package includes the interMedia domain classes and a set of utilities. The domain classes are wrappers of Oracle interMedia Java Classes and inherit all the underlying multimedia retrieval, upload, and manipulation methods. The domain classes support the BC4J framework APIs and provide built-in integrated multimedia capabilities, while the utility classes support the retrieval, rendering, and uploading of multimedia content. See Section 1.10.3 for more information.
Oracle Designer -- a tool used to manage software configuration management for controlling the evolution of an application from identification of components, through initiation, evaluation, authorization, development, and implementation. Oracle Designer can generate C++ classes that enable applications running on the client or on Oracle Application Server 10g or on Oracle Database to call interMedia methods.
Oracle Content Management SDK -- lets you create custom file system applications using XML and Java that use the features and capabilities of the database, and a variety of Web-based interfaces, such as Java servlets and JSP or executing SQL or calling stored PL/SQL procedures for execution in the transaction context of the database.
Integration with third-party client Web authoring tools for rapid Web site development to allow direct delivery of dynamic multimedia data stored in the database to the Web site. These third-party Web authoring tools include:
Oracle interMedia Plug-in for RealNetworks servers -- Oracle interMedia Plug-in for RealNetworks, RealSystem RealServer 7.0, RealSystem iQ Server 8.0, and Helix Universal Server. This tool lets these RealNetworks servers stream multimedia data to a client directly out of the database. This plug-in is installed in the RealNetworks server and defined in the RealNetworks server configuration file. The data is requested with a URL, which contains information necessary to select the multimedia data from the database. See Section 1.10.2 for more information.
Chapter 3 describes the interMedia photo album Web application and how to develop media upload and retrieval applications using either the PL/SQL development environment, the Java IDE, or the Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)/Visual Basic (VB) development environment for developing Web applications for the Microsoft IIS Web Server using interMedia. In addition, this chapter describes an interMedia Code Wizard application that lets you create PL/SQL stored procedures for the PL/SQL Gateway to upload and retrieve media data (images, audio, video, and general media) stored in a database using interMedia object types. You can either create and compile standalone media access procedures using the Code Wizard, or you can create the source of media access procedures for inclusion in a PL/SQL package.
Chapter 4 describes the IMExample Java sample application (sometimes referred to as a demo) and how the classes of Oracle interMedia Java Classes are used to create this sample application that lets you retrieve from the sample schema, save to a file, play, and delete from the sample schema interMedia image, audio, video, and testimonial data using the respective interMedia object types, OrdImage, OrdAudio, OrdVideo, and OrdDoc.
If you are not familiar with developing PL/SQL Web applications and using the PL/SQL Gateway and PL/SQL Web Toolkit, see Section 2.1.
If you are not familiar with developing Java-based Web applications using JDBC to access interMedia objects, see Section 2.2.
SQL developers familiar with the database can develop Web applications that exclusively use Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database using the PL/SQL development environment. PL/SQL is a completely portable, high-performance transaction processing language that combines the data manipulation power of SQL with the data processing power of procedural languages.
The PL/SQL development environment lets you achieve the best performance for database-intensive applications because PL/SQL is highly optimized for use with the database through its support for and tight integration with SQL, support for processing an entire block of SQL statements at one time, and letting you compile PL/SQL procedures and store them in executable form in the database, to be called later. In addition, as a development environment, SQL developers have support for the object-oriented programming model, can experience higher productivity due to its procedural nature, and can come quickly up to speed to develop PL/SQL-based Web applications.
Developing Web applications using PL/SQL consists of developing one or more PL/SQL packages consisting of sets of stored procedures that interact with Web browsers through HTTP. Stored procedures can be executed in several ways:
From a hypertext link that calls a stored procedure when it is selected.
By clicking Submit on an HTML form to denote the completion of a task such as filling out a form supplied on the HTML page.
By passing parameters to a stored procedure based on user choices from a list.
Information in the stored procedure, such as tagged HTML text, is displayed in the Web browser as a Web page. These dynamic Web pages are generated by the database and are based on the database contents and the input parameters passed in to the stored procedure. Using PL/SQL stored procedures is especially efficient and powerful for generating dynamic Web page content.
There are two ways of generating HTML output from PL/SQL:
Using function calls to generate each HTML tag for output using the PL/SQL Web Toolkit package that is part of Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database and whose
owa packages are loaded into a common schema so that all users can access it.
Embedding PL/SQL code in Web pages (PL/SQL server pages)
Use interMedia when media data such as images, audio, video, or combinations of all three are to be uploaded into and retrieved from database tables using the interMedia object types and their respective sets of methods.
Media upload procedures first perform a SQL INSERT operation to insert a row of data in the media table, which also initializes instances of the respective interMedia object columns with an empty BLOB. Next, a SQL SELECT FOR UPDATE operation selects the object columns for update. Finally a SQL UPDATE operation updates the media objects in their respective columns. interMedia methods are called to do the following:
Initialize the object columns with an empty BLOB.
Set attributes to indicate media data is stored internally in a BLOB.
Get values of the object attributes and store them in the object attributes.
When exceptions occur, determine the length of the BLOB content and its MIME type.
Media retrieval operations involve the following tasks:
Retrieving the object from the database into a local object.
Checking the cache validity of the object based on its updated time versus that of the HTTP header time.
Determining where the media object is located: in the database, in a BFILE, or at a URL location; then, getting the media, and downloading it for display on an HTML page.
interMedia methods are called to get the time that the media object was last updated, to determine if the media is stored locally in the database, in a BFILE, or at a URL location, to get the MIME type of the media object, and finally to retrieve the media data.
Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database install Oracle HTTP Server powered by the Apache HTTPD server that contains the PL/SQL Gateway to communicate directly with a client Web browser.
Oracle HTTP Server serves mainly the static HTML files, images, and so forth, that a Web application uses, and is usually located in the file system where Oracle HTTP Server is installed. Oracle HTTP Server contains modules or plug-ins that extend its functions. One of these modules supplied by Oracle is the mod_plsql module, also known as the PL/SQL Gateway. The PL/SQL Gateway serves data dynamically from the database to Web browsers by calling PL/SQL stored procedures. The PL/SQL Gateway receives requests from a Web browser in the form of PL/SQL servlets or PL/SQL server pages that are mapped to PL/SQL stored procedure calls. PL/SQL stored procedures retrieve data from the database and generate an HTTP response containing the data and code from the PL/SQL Web Toolkit to display the generated Web page in a Web browser. The PL/SQL Web Toolkit contains a set of packages called
htf, and
owa packages that can be used in the stored procedures to get information about the request, construct HTML tags, and return header information to the client Web browser.
Figure 2-1 shows these main components of the PL/SQL development environment, Oracle HTTP Server (a component of Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database), the Web browser, and the database. The following information describes how a client Web browser request is turned into a Web page response from the execution of the PL/SQL procedure:
A client Web browser sends a PL/SQL server page or servlet request to Oracle HTTP Server.
Oracle HTTP Server routes the request to the PL/SQL Gateway (mod_plsql).
The PL/SQL Gateway forwards the request to the database using configuration information stored in the database access descriptor (DAD) and connects to the database.
The PL/SQL Gateway prepares the call parameters and invokes the PL/SQL package and the PL/SQL stored procedure in the application.
The PL/SQL procedure generates an HTML page using data from the database and special packages in the PL/SQL Web Toolkit accessed from the database. The PL/SQL Web Toolkit contains a set of packages called
htf, and
owa packages that are used in the stored procedures to get information about the request, construct HTML tags, and return header information back to the client Web browser as the response returned to the PL/SQL Gateway.
The PL/SQL Gateway sends the response to Oracle HTTP Server.
Oracle HTTP Server sends the response to the client Web browser for display as a formatted Web page.
Figure 2-1 Components of the PL/SQL Development Environment
Usually, the returned formatted Web page has one or more additional links, and each link, when selected, sends another request to the database through the PL/SQL Gateway to execute one or more stored procedures. The generated response displays data on the client Web page usually with additional links, which, when selected, execute more stored procedures that return the generated response for display as yet another formatted Web page, and so forth. This is how the PL/SQL application in the PL/SQL development environment is designed to work.
Web application developers who use the PL/SQL development environment, create a PL/SQL package specification and body that describe procedures and functions that comprise the application. The package specification defines the procedures and functions used by the application, and the package body is the implementation of each procedure and function. All packages are compiled and stored in the database to perform specific operations for accessing data in the database and formatting HTML output for Web page presentation. To invoke these stored PL/SQL procedures, Web application developers use the request/response PL/SQL servlets and PL/SQL server pages (PSP) to allow Web browser clients to send requests and get back responses using HTTP.
Oracle HTTP Server maps a URL entered in a browser to a specific PL/SQL procedure stored in the database. It does this by storing specific configuration information by means of a DAD for each stored procedure. Thus, each DAD contains the database connection information that is needed by the Web server to translate the URL entered into a database connection in order to call the stored procedure.
Oracle HTTP Server listens for a request, routes the request to the PL/SQL Gateway, which forwards it to the database. Configuration information values stored in a DAD determine the database alias to use, the connection string to use for remote access, the procedure to use for uploading or downloading documents, and the user name and password information to allow access to the database. From the Web browser, the user specifies the URL that invokes the PL/SQL Gateway. The URL has a defined format specifying all required and optional parameters needed including the location of the DAD and the name of the PL/SQL stored procedure to run, as shown in Example 2-1.
Example 2-1 URL Format Required for Invoking mod_plsql in a Web Browser
protocol://hostname[:port number]/DAD-name/[[!][schema name.][package name.]procedure_name[?query_string]]
For a detailed description of each parameter and options available, see Oracle HTTP Server mod_plsql User's Guide. However, for the purpose of using the photo album application for interMedia and the PL/SQL Web Toolkit described in Section 3.1.1, the URL can be simplified to the format shown in Example 2-2.
Example 2-2 URL Format Required to Invoke mod_plsql in a Web Browser for the Photo Album Application
When the URL is entered in the Web browser, it includes the protocol (HTTP or HTTPS), the name of the hosting Web server, and the port number to which it is listening to handle requests. Next, the specified virtual path includes
/pls/<DAD-name> to indicate that the Web server is configured to invoke mod_plsql, and the location of the DAD on the Web server.
In Example 2-1, the last five parameters include the exclamation point (!) character, schema name, package name, procedure name, and query string. From the syntax, the exclamation point, schema name, package name, and query string parameters are optional; only the procedure name is required.
The exclamation point indicates that flexible parameter passing is being used. The schema name, if omitted, is resolved based on the user name. The package name, if omitted, means the procedure is standalone. The query string parameters are for the stored procedure and follow a special format. Of these five parameters, the procedure name must be specified in both the DAD and the URL. The other four parameters are specified in either the DAD or the URL, or not at all, depending on the application.
The URL displays the home page for the specified DAD. When the URL is entered in the address field of the Web browser page, it invokes either the specified DAD location only, or the specified DAD location along with the procedure name, or the specified DAD location along with the
schema.package.procedure name. The response is returned as an HTML page. The HTML page contains the requested data and any other specified code for display in the client's Web browser. The Code Wizard described in Section 3.2.1 illustrates how this works. For example, to invoke the Code Wizard administration URL, enter the following URL shown in Step 3 in Section 3.2.2:
The virtual path includes
pls to indicate that the Web server is configured to invoke mod_plsql, followed by the name of the DAD used for the Code Wizard administrator,
When the HTML page is displayed, it resolves to the following URL for the Code Wizard administrator:
ORDCWPKG.menu represents the
package.procedure name, which is specified as the default home page in the
ordcwadmin DAD.
When the PL/SQL Gateway is invoked, it uses the stateless model and does not allow a transaction to span across multiple HTTP requests. In this stateless model, applications typically can create a session to maintain state by using one of the following techniques: HTTP cookies, a hidden HTML field as an HTML form element of the HTML Form package, or storage of vital information in database tables for query. For more information, see Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals.
Java database connectivity (JDBC) is a standard Java interface defined by Sun Microsystems, based on the X/Open SQL Call Level Interface that complies with the SQL 92 Entry Level standard, that is used for connecting from Java to relational databases. JDBC supports dynamic SQL, letting a calling program construct SQL statements dynamically at runtime. These are the major benefits of using this Java interface in addition to allowing individual providers, such as Oracle Corporation, to implement and extend their own JDBC drivers.
A database-embedded JVM supports the JDBC interface. Java source code (.java file) is compiled into one or more byte code files (
.class files) and these class files are interpreted at runtime and executed by the embedded JVM. If your Java application uses objects defined in other packages, you must set the CLASSPATH environment variable and specify the paths to all objects used by your application.
Resulting class files for servlets are usually placed in the directory enabled to run servlets. Class files for JSP are usually placed in the JavaBean directory for your servlet's container, while the JSP files are usually copied to a directory enabled to serve JSP, which by default, is your JSP sample application directory. For servlets, the actual location of your servlet class files depends on the servlet container you are using and how it is configured. For JSP, the actual location of your servlet and JSP files depends on the servlet container and JSP engine you are using, and how the engine is configured. Each of the Java sample applications uses the default location of the servlet containers as required by Oracle HTTP Server powered by Apache for an installation of Oracle Application Server 10g or Oracle Database. See the respective
Java sample application readme.txt files for more information.
To write a Java application that uses the JDBC interface and the embedded JVM, perform the following operations that will access interMedia objects in a database table:
Establish a JDBC connection from the Java application to the database.
Call a getConnection( ) method to obtain an OracleConnection object.
If your application will modify the interMedia object, perform the following operations:
Call the setAutoCommit( ) method to disable auto-commit mode.
Execute a SELECT... FOR UPDATE statement on the database table.
Create an OracleStatement or OraclePreparedStatement object in your application. Call the executeQuery( ) method to execute the SELECT... FOR UPDATE statement and return an OracleResultSet object, and fetch a row from the result set.
If your application will not modify the interMedia object, execute a SELECT statement on the database table.
Retrieve the interMedia object from the result set as an instance of one of the classes of Oracle interMedia Java Classes.
Perform operations on the Java application object.
Having retrieved the interMedia Java object from the result set, your application can now load new data into the object, or your application can retrieve or manipulate existing data in the object.
If the interMedia object has been modified by the application, update the database object to include the results of the operations, and commit your changes.
If the application modified the object in the previous step, create an OraclePreparedStatement object that contains a SQL statement that updates the database object, and execute the statement.
Commit the transaction by calling the commit( ) method.
Close the connection to the database table.
The IMExample Java sample application, which is described in Chapter 4, provides examples of each step in this process.
For more information on using JDBC, see Oracle Database JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference.


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i'm new here, but i'm not new for being an atheist.
i just want to know how you guys turn to be an atheist?to become an open minded thinkers...
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does it mean you're like an agnostic???
Two different words; theism refers to belief, gnosticism refers to knowledge, the words are not exclusive of each other. You can be a gnostic theist ("I believe and know a god exists"), an agnostic theist ("I believe a god exists, but I'm not certain of it"), an agnostic atheist ("I do not believe a god exists, but I'm not certain"), or a gnostic atheist ("I do not believe a god exists, and I am certain no gods exist").
I didn't become an atheist, I always was one. I tried but could not believe, because religion seemed so silly.
yes,,then you were inborn super atheist,,haha
Everyone is born an atheist, you have to be indoctrinated, which is what engenders belief.
In my case it was a lucid mixture between how I thought living in my toxic dysfunctional home as a child, and what I have learned as an adult. Studying philosophy, and opening my eyes up to logic. Knowledge is what probably made me an atheist.
yeah,,thats exactly what happen to me,,i question god's existence since i was in elementary,,but when i had my professional subjects,,logic w/ science facts explains all for me,, :)
haha,,it seems brainwash didn't affect you,,
I need for things to make sense. I need for things that claim to be moral and righteous to measure up. I really wanted this whole Christianity thing to work out, but it just wasn't. So, I had a long and tortured break-up. We got back together a couple of times and yeah, you'd changed xtianity, but you were still woo underneath. So, finally I gave you the boot. And it wasn't me, it was you, xtianity. :)
I agree great explanation!


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Friday Philosophy – The Secret to Being a Good IT Manager June 3, 2011Posted by mwidlake in Friday Philosophy, humour, Management.
Tags: behaviour, Humour, Management
If you go into a book shop there will probably be a section on business and, if there is, there will almost certainly be a load of books on how to be a manager. Shelves and shelves of them. There is also a large and vibrant market in selling courses on management and aspects of management. I've been on a couple of such course and, if you can manage to be open minded whilst keeping a cynical edge, I think they can be useful.
However, I think I most of them are missing the key points and that if you can but hold on to the following extensive list of guiding principles you will be a good IT manager. Maybe even an excellent one :-):
- Your top priority, at all times, is to see to the best interests of your people.
- Whatever you develop, be it code, databases, network, a team of support staff – User Acceptance is paramount.
- You must find ways to deal with other teams and your own management hierarchy in such a way as to be allowed to do (1) and (2).
- That's it.
- OK, if pushed, I'd say Never Lie. Maybe that's just personal though, it's because I don't have the memory, audacity or swiftness of mind to pull it off. By not lying I don't have to try and construct what I said to who and why.
I'm sure people could cite some other hard rules like "you must be within budget" or "you need to get buy-in to your vision" but I don't agree. Budgets can be negotiated and the difference between those deemed visionaries and those deemed fantasists seems to be to me down to success and luck. Luck is luck and for success I refer you to points 1 through 5.
OK, maybe a final rule is:
- Never ask for or aim for something that is not realistic.
So, I am now able to develop my team and my application and not expect to be able to spend half the company profit on the fastest box out there, as it is not realistic.
There are a shed load of other things that I think are important to helping you be a good manager, you know, techniques and methods for improving things, but nothing else that is key.
And it's such a simple, small list even I can aim for it.
The shame of it is that I don't think it's enough to be developed into a book or a course so I can't sell the idea. That and I've gone and given it away in this blog. Also, though I feel I can give points 1,2 and 5 a good shot, point 3 is way beyond me…possibly because of point 5… So I am not a great manager.
I'm going to hide behind this stout wall now, with my hard hat on, and wait to be told how naive I am…
Update – A couple of weeks later, Kellyn on her DBA Kevlar blog put similar sentiments to looking after your guys, more from the employee's perspective and far better covered
Why given so many of us feel this way and want things to be this way…are they not?
- 1. Mark W. Farnham - June 3, 2011
I think you've got that about right. There are probably a few books in there about tips for executing those key points, such as how to plan to protect your team from insane commitments. But that fits in your short list – a short list that requires a viewpoint that the manager should enable the team and remove roadblocks before the team reaches that point in the journey whenever possible. That will make you a good manager.
To be successful as a manager it helps to be a good manager, but it is even more important to have good people working for you and a company executive structure that understands the same ideas on your short list.
- 3. Mark W. Farnham - June 3, 2011
Nods on your reaction to my comment as well. My point about employees was that being a good manager is useful in its own right but does not guaranteed success as a manager. Just as a sports team with a great manager but sub par talent or an unhelpful owner may not win the championship, they probably do better than with a lousy manager. And a good manager makes it easier to get good employees and once in a while inspires upper management to also be better.
A company President, in my view, is first a servant of the employees and customers. But what of the fiduciary responsibility to the owners or stockholders? Part of maximizing long term value is being the servant of the employees and customers, so there is no conflict.
- 4. Kellyn Pot'Vin - June 3, 2011
How often do companies lose excellent people due to one poor manager who doesn't comprehend these valuable rules? How important it is for hiring and promoting managers to understand the difference between true leadership skills who will embrace these rules and those that simply manage through contol issues..
- 5. Friday Philosophy – Tainted by the Team « Martin Widlake's Yet Another Oracle Blog - August 26, 2011
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- 6. Friday Philosophy – Tainted by the Team « Ukrainian Oracle User Group - August 28, 2011
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Where will the next jolt of growth come for ETFs? Look no further than actively managed funds.
A new research report published by SEI, titled "Getting a Grasp on Actively Managed ETFs Before the Boom," says the low cost, transparency, and tax efficiency of ETFs make them an attractive choice for investors.
While actively managed ETFs currently make up less than 1% of the global ETF market, SEI predicts active funds will be a major contributor to the next phase of ETF expansion, ultimately competing with traditional active mutual funds for market share.
"Recently there has been positive movement supporting growth in active ETFs, but the historical roadblocks and lengthy SEC approval process have steered both managers and investors away," said Jay Cipriano, head of traditional solutions for SEI's investment manager services division.
In April, the Securities and Exchange Commission granted exemptive relief to Exchange Traded Concepts. The move may shorten the time line for new active ETFs to be introduced—a process that typically can take up to 18 months from registration to launch.
In late 2012, the SEC also made leeway for active ETFs to use derivatives, enabling fund sponsors to expand into other asset classes, such as commodities and currencies. This change has made active ETFs more attractive to managers, prompting traditional mutual fund-only providers to move into the space.
"If managers can take advantage of these new positive catalysts, active ETFs may not only fuel the next phase of ETF growth, but over time may challenge traditional active mutual funds for market share," added Cipriano.
Global management consultant McKinsey & Co. predicts assets in actively managed ETFs will reach $500 billion by 2020, up from $12.6 billion today.
During the first quarter, there were 58 U.S. listed actively managed ETFs. PIMCO was the largest active ETF manager, with just over $7.8 billion in assets.


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So many of my colleagues have some degree of trouble with their
hands/wrists/arms. It's a serious occupational hazard. Agile coding is a slightly different ballgame for me in terms of wrist problems.
My physical therapist for my first, worst episode — the episode that
left me with permanent nerve damage, nearly 20 years ago now —
stressed to me that damage is cumulative. Young coders can think
they're invulnerable, but I'm here to preach to you: the pain can end
up being permanent. If it hurts to type, stop typing — please don't do what I did, viz., shrug and keep going.
In the Agile/pair programming world the setup for workstations tends
to be a flat table, no special equipment, so that workstations are
interchangeable. No keyboard trays, nothing — not the best ergonomically. Here's how I cope:
- I have a great chair, an armless ZackBack (um, yes, I've written my name on it in big black letters, why do you ask?). Posture can be really important to keeping your arms healthy.
- I use a flat keyboard, with as light a touch as possible — Macally is working well for me.
- I put the keyboard in my lap, which creates a better angle for me.
Alas, sometimes it maketh my typing to suck, but usually it's okay.
- I use two alternative mice: a Roller Mouse for clicking and most steering, and a pen mouse for the rest of the steering. It's best for my hands if I use both of them to mouse at once. Clicking with the pen mouse once caused a flareup, and the roller mouse gets a little wild for precision steering, which means I put my hand in a bad position trying to control it. I used to use a foot mouse, and I recommend that too if you don't mind a loud clomping sound every time you click. High learning curve with the steering, but great low-impact clicking. My fabulous former boss Lynne Cameron thought of it. (Miss you, Lynne!)
- I turn on Sticky Keys, which means I don't have to hold multiple keys at once. Unfortunately, it can be hard on my pair if we forget to turn it off. Sorry, folks. Think of it as a variant of Dvorak. Note that it's a good idea to disable the "beep when a modifier key is turned on" option if you value your sanity, and enable "Press shift five times to turn on or off". (Also that, arghh, the new Apple keyboard goes a little berserk with Sticky Keys turned on. The arrow keys don't work at all, for example.)
- I make sure the monitor (we're an all-iMac shop) is on a riser or phone book or something so that the top of the screen is level with my eyes. Bent neck equals bad posture.
All these help to make the setup sustainable for me. The other thing
about pairing that makes sense ergonomically is, of course, the fact
that your hands get a break whenever your pair is typing (if you ever
let them type — I am a confirmed keyboard hog, but I'm trying to mend my ways!).
Just one more wrist hazard of agile coding: all the self-applauding and high-fiving — paired code is so much better than code written solo.
How do you cope with your wrist limitations?
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Variety hour: Manorlady keeps debut all in the family
Manorlady Family Band is just that– a veritable family affair– with the main components consisting of husband and wife Melissa and Aaron Bailey on vocals and guitar and Melissa's younger brother, Donald, on keys. (The family vibe continues backstage with Aaron's brother producing and Melissa and Donald's sister doing the publicity photography.)
The nostalgic charm of the music and a never-say-die attitude gives the three-piece ensemble an initial appeal; but the true pull of this burgeoning Charlottesville act is the enthusiastic, if not youthful, desire for experimentation and adaptation of diverse musical interests into one lush, cohesive sound.
On their first EP, Home Away, released in 2010– they electrified classics by Radiohead, Tears For Fears, and Portishead. This time, they've meshed a collective interest in ska, punk, classical, and electronic experimentation for their debut album, Home.
With lyrics influenced by the mundane aspects of everyday life– including schedules, reality tv, and dogs– and traditional melodies morphed by technology into a raw, funky, shoegaze electronica, Manorlady has brought Charlottesville a fresh perspective on reinterpreting sound.
"It's like a Pollack painting," says Aaron, "we mixed up all the colors and threw it on a canvas, and this is what we got.
Manorlady releases its debut album, Home, Saturday, April 23, at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar. The doors open at 8pm, and tickets cost $5.Read more on: manorladytea bazaar


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==External links==
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*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=101855 Apostle Matthias], June 30 (OCA)
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=101855 Apostle Matthias], June 30 (OCA)
*[://goarch.org/chapel/saints?contentid=158 Matthias, Apostle of the 70] ([[GOARCH]])
*[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/01newstucture/pagesen/sermons/stjohnmathias.html "The Church of Christ Shall Not Be Impoverished": Sermon on the feast day of Apostle Matthias] by St. [[John Maximovitch]]
*[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/01newstucture/pagesen/sermons/stjohnmathias.html "The Church of Christ Shall Not Be Impoverished": Sermon on the feast day of Apostle Matthias] by St. [[John Maximovitch]]
*[[w:Saint Matthias|''Saint Matthias'' at Wikipedia]]
*[[w:Saint Matthias|''Saint Matthias'' at Wikipedia]]
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The Holy Apostle Matthias was one of the Seventy before he replaced one of the Twelve. Saint Matthias is commemorated on August 9, and on June 30 with the Synaxis of the Glorious and All-Praiseworthy Twelve Apostles of Christ.
Apostle Matthias was born at Bethlehem of the Tribe of Judah. From his early childhood he studied the Law of God under the guidance of St Simeon the God-receiver.
When the Lord Jesus Christ revealed himself to the world, St Matthias believed in him as the Messiah, followed constantly after him and was numbered among the Seventy Apostles, whom the Lord "sent them two by two before His face" (Luke 10:1).
After the Ascension of the Savior, St Matthias was chosen by lot to replace Judas Iscariot as one of the Twelve Apostles (Acts 1:15-26). After the Descent of the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Matthias preached the Gospel at Jerusalem and in Judea together with the other Apostles (Acts 6:2, 8:14). From Jerusalem he went with the Apostles Peter and Andrew to Syrian Antioch, and was in the Cappadocian city of Tianum and Sinope. Here the Apostle Matthias was locked into prison, from which he was miraculously freed by St Andrew the First-Called.
The Apostle Matthias journeyed after this to Amasea, a city on the shore of the sea. During a three year journey of the Apostle Andrew, St Matthias was with him at Edessa and Sebaste. According to Church Tradition, he was preaching at Pontine Ethiopia (presently Western Georgia) and Macedonia. He was frequently subjected to deadly peril, but the Lord preserved him to preach the Gospel.
Once, pagans forced the saint to drink a poison potion. He drank it, and not only did he himself remain unharmed, but he also healed other prisoners who had been blinded by the potion. When St Matthias left the prison, the pagans searched for him in vain, for he had become invisible to them. Another time, when the pagans had become enraged intending to kill the Apostle, the earth opened up and engulfed them.
The Apostle Matthias returned to Judea and did not cease to enlighten his countrymen with the light of Christ's teachings. He worked great miracles in the Name of the Lord Jesus and he converted a great many to faith in Christ.
The Jewish High Priest Ananias hated Christ and earlier had commanded the Apostle James, Brother of the Lord, to be flung down from the heights of the Temple, and now he ordered that the Apostle Matthias be arrested and brought for judgment before the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem.
The impious Ananias uttered a speech in which he blasphemously slandered the Lord. Using the prophecies of the Old Testament, the Apostle Matthias demonstrated that Jesus Christ is the True God, the promised Messiah, the Son of God, Consubstantial and Coeternal with God the Father. After these words the Apostle Matthias was sentenced to death by the Sanhedrin and stoned.
When St Matthias was already dead, the Jews, to hide their malefaction, cut off his head as an enemy of Caesar. (According to several historians, the Apostle Matthias was crucified, and indicate that he instead died at Colchis.) The Apostle Matthias received the martyr's crown of glory in the year 63.
- O holy Apostle Matthias,
- Pray to the merciful God,
- That He may grant to our souls
- Remission of our transgressions!
- O wonder-worker and Apostle Matthias,
- Your words have gone out into all the world,
- Enlightening men as the sun,
- And giving grace to the Church
- Bringing faith to heathen lands!
- Apostle Matthias of the Seventy, August 9 (OCA)
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The Office Show: Microsoft Word
Do you often work with really long Word documents? Do you sometimes collaborate with others on the creation of these really long documents? Check out the latest episode of the Office Show for a quick tour of some of the new features in Microsoft Word 2010 that could make your life just a little bit easier.
We'll show you the new Navigation Pane in Word. It makes it easy to find your way around long, complicated documents.
If you're upgrading from Word 2003, the new fluent user interface will be new to you. Menus and toolbars have been replaced by the ribbon. The ribbon was introduced with Word 2007, and it's made doing things like applying styles really easy.
You are using styles in Word aren't you? No? Well, we'll not only show you how to apply styles, we'll show you how to create your own custom styles.
Collaborating on documents in Word has been made easy with the new coauthoring feature. We'll show you how you can work with others in the same document without the worry of multiple versions sprouting up in email.
Yes, all this and a gratuitous reference to pirates and parrots!
For more action packed tips, techniques, and ideas for making life a little better using Word 2010, click on the links below for great content from Office.com and Channel 9.
- What's new in Word 2010
- What's new in Word 2010 for 2003 upgraders
- Interactive Guide: Learn where Word 2003 menu and toolbar commands are in Word 2010
- Video: Using the Navigation Pane in Word 2010
- Video: Apply Styles in Word 2010
- Video: CoAuthoring in Word 2010
If you have ideas and tips you want to share about how Word works in your world, write a comment and let everyone know. And we'd love to hear what you think of the show. The team at Office.com created this video in partnership with our friends at Microsoft's Channel 9, where you can find more videos about Office.
-- Ron O.
Right click or Alt+Enter to download this episode
- High Quality WMV (261.8 MB)
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The Discussion
Great video. Could you release them in 720 or 1080? The text and screens are not readable in the 512x288 format your publish in.
If you click on the "Media Downloads" drop down above, you can get the WMV High version which (in this case) is 960 x 544
We've been developing ribbon apps that help users manipulate documents that can range from 2 pages to 3000+ pages. What has consistently killed us is that when we update the documents using the Word API, word must 'repaginate' for massively extended periods of time. Even worse, we have to forcefully clear the undo buffer or Word will hang for minutes at a time after we've updated the document in our software.
We make extensive use of OpenOfficeXml to manipulate these documents and it would be wonderful if instead of hanging and repaginating, the word developers would figure out how to keep this from happening.
As a side note, the OpenOfficeXml documentation is available in both PDF and Word format. If you open the document that describes the OpenOfficeXml content, Word is essentially unusable.
If you think I'm kidding, download the ECMA-376 1st Edition part 4 from
and attempt to open the "Office Open XML Part 4 - Markup Language Reference.docx" file.
You will become intimately familiar with "Word is paginating".
I love the _idea_ of word as a platform for working with professional documents, but the reality is that unless the document is less that 500 pages, it's pointless to work with it.
This is a great video. We've been doing quite a few videos as well on various Office 2010 products. Outlook 2010, Word 2010, demonstrating shortcuts, tutorials on the ribbon and more. If there is ever something we can do together that would be great. Please see some of our work at http://www.microsoftoffice2010forums.com specifically the video section.
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Thanks for posting the link to Part 4 of the OOXML spec. I have a recent high end 64bit m/c with loads of RAM so even without going to draft mode I can, if I am patient, load and move about this document. I wonder if this document is in any MS Word test suite? One reason I am not sure that it can be is because using "ctrl-click" on any reference such as"(§2.18.106)" at the foot of page 296 fails by taking you to the start of the document. Funnily enough the Navigation Header Browser works, as do TOC references.
My hope is that Word could be a platform for building robust large documents, but this example, ironically built by MS themselves to describe a MS Word thing, seems to be a bit of a kick in the teeth. Anyway - over to MS to tell us about viewing/navigating/editing this file in MS Word 2010. I propose that this file (or a fixed version) become the benchmark for serious Word use.
Lovely video. I liked it and if someone suggest me about efficient pdf converter then i really appreciate his idea. I love to use one here it is - http://www.pdf-file.com


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Sometimes it is the most simple of ideas that makes you slap your forehead and say, "Duh… why didn't I think of that?" That is how I feel about this recipe for Walking Tacos. Such a simple idea, inspired by a day at the county fair.
School will be starting again in just a short few weeks, which means that our schedules go from just slightly hectic to crazy always rushing around and hurrying out the door hectic. This holds true for dinnertime during the school year too, which usually has to be eaten around the table really late at night or snatched to eat on the go in the car. I will be 100% honest when I say I value family meal time more than just about any other ritual in our home, but as my kids get older and more involved in extracurricular activities, I recognize that a sit down dinner with all 6 of us together just isn't going to happen every night. The next best thing is a home cooked meal that can be eaten on the go.
No, these walking tacos aren't the healthiest of options, but I bet they are better than what you can get when you make a visit to your friendly neighborhood drive through. Plus, you can add beans, corn, veggies… you can add all kids of things to sneak some healthy into your bag.
The next time you are tempted to just give your kid another sandwich as you walk out the door to the next event, think again and think inside the bag… Walking Tacos. A delicious and hearty dinner that is about as super simple as you can get!
Walking Tacos
Super Simple Supper (Recipe: Walking Tacos)
- 1 pound lean ground beef crumbled, browned and fat drained
- 1 package taco seasoning or I make my own with this recipe here
- 3 Tbs water
- 1 can Bush's Black Beans drained
- 6 individual sized bags of Doritos or Fritos chips
- Shredded Lettuce
- Shredded Cheese
- Diced Tomatoes
- Diced Avocados
- Sour Cream
- Basically whatever you like to put on top of tacos or taco salad
With your browned grown beef still in the skillet, add the Bush's black beans, 3 Tbs of water and your taco seasoning. Heat through.
Gently take each individual bag of chips and crush the chips. Once the chips are crushed, cut open the top of the bag.
Scoop your taco meat/bean mixture into the bag. Top with your favorite toppings...tomatoes, cheese, lettuce, avocados, sour cream...whatever your heart desires.
Take a spoon and stir your chips / taco meat creation together
Head out the door with your walking taco bag in your hand and a spoon and enjoy a hearty dinner on the run!


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amazing! You can do great things in micro. Seems like LEGO was built for micro in your creation. I especially like the little details like the textured walls on the tower and at the bottom of the house, the sailboat, and the pieces you used for the dock. plus your rock landscaping is something to be proud of (which is more than i can say).
this is an 11th hour moc that'll find its way to the podium for sure. way to inspire (and maybe shame! ) the rest of us!


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